Search
14—(1) If any officer of police has reason for suspecting that an offence against this Act or any regulations made thereunder has been or is being committed on board any aircraft, he may enter and search the craft, and may search any person found therein or who may have been landed therefrom:
Provided that before any person is searched, he may require to be taken with all reasonable despatch before a justice, who shall, if he sees no reasonable cause for search, discharge that person, but if otherwise direct that he be searched, and if a female she shall not be searched by any other than a female.
(2) If any person assaults or obstructs any officer of police in searching an aircraft, or in searching any person in the aircraft, or who may have landed therefrom, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and if any officer of police without reasonable ground causes any person to be searched, that officer shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
Seizure and Detention of Aircraft
15—The Secretary of State may make regulations as to the manner in which aircraft, liable to seizure and detention under this Act may be seized and detained.
Forgery, etc., of Certificates, etc.
16—If any person—
(a) forges or fraudulently alters, or assists in forging or fraudulently altering or procures to be forged or fraudulently altered, any certificate of registration, airworthiness, or competency under this Act or any log or other papers required under this Act to be carried in an aircraft; or,
(b) makes or assists in making or procures to be made any false representation for the purpose of procuring the issue of a certificate of airworthiness, or of procuring either for himself or for any other person a certificate of competency; or